Terribly Happy

The first time Pablo and I saw the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer, we were wowed, but in the course of putting together the new Trailers Without Pity video, you could say we got a little disenchanted.

For one thing, I couldn’t get over the Michael Cera-ness of the proceedings and for another, surprising, eye-catching special effects often wear out their welcome when it seems that’s the most interesting thing going on.

Nevertheless, it’s directed by the guy who did Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, so you gotta give it the benefit of the doubt. Or, I mean, I do. You might not give a damn.

I’ve embedded the video here, but if it doesn’t work for you, but do us the favor of giving this link a 64-hit combo click and watching it for yourself on the TWOP site.

Next time, we’re doing Piranha 3-D.

(This was previously posted on the old Terribly Happy site. The movie is in theaters this week.)

We made a list recently of our next six Trailers Without Pity movies, a task we’d neglected until we had exhausted our last 12-week-old list. We gazed upon the list of summer bonanzas — action, comedy, super-hero drama (check, check, check) — among them, we had this odd-duck movie with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. It’s due out in just a month and except for a few commercials, this movie has almost no buzz.

The press site: barren of even a smattering of images that might flesh out our idea of this movie.

Tell me if you can figure this trailer out. While I’m sure the production values will be high and the movie will be professional in its format output, I don’t know if I see a movie that humans want to consume in there. Maybe I’m off and this will made $100 million+ in its first week, but my gut, the one that also likes gourmet donuts, tells me this will not come to pass.

If there is buzz on this movie, it’s anti-buzz, the kind that comes from a flying attention-hungry vampire insect, one that is not striped in black and yellow, but in the very colors whose lack of pigment cause you to turn away, bored.

Knight and Day, folks:

(posted previously on the old version of Terribly Happy)

How could we resist the computer-generated siren call of a Pixar movie as a Trailers Without Pity? (Well, all right, we didn’t do one for Up, but how were we supposed to know how good it would be?)

We learned our lesson and will never underestimate Pixar again, at least until they jump the shark with Cars 2.

Here’s our Trailers Without Pity for Toy Story 3 which we very much liked.

We’ve been big Christopher Nolan fans since Memento and damned if we weren’t blown away by Dark Knight, so it’s not hard to get worked up over his new summer movie, Inception. It features Leonardo DiCaprio and more stars than I care to name and looks pretty fantastic.

Our Trailers Without Pity for Inception concludes that it will probably be amazing if it doesn’t get too far up its own dream colon.  I mean, it has to be. Have you seen the other movies that are out this summer? It’s like navigating a yard full of poop where a St. Bernard lives.

You can view it here on the TWOP site or below if the embedded video works for you.

The video just went up and we’re already working on the next one, for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

So, I think what happened is we saw the word “Sex” in the title of Sex and the City 2 and just kind of went buck-wild with it. And when I say “We,” I mean mostly “me.” I imagine Pablo is a little disgusted with me right now for what I helped make his poor computer churn out.

Anyhoo, here is our Trailers Without Pity for Sex and the City 2. The movie is in theaters today. I apologize in advance for the vagina trophy.

(This is reposted from the old site. I’m moving over some of the more recent Trailers w/o Pity videos to WordPress.)

This week on Trailers Without Pity, we take a break from talking about big-budget, superhero-laden summer movies to address the summer comedy Dinner For Schmucks, which stars Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd (and like a half-dozen other comedians you probably really like).

We spend a good deal of time examining what the word “Schmuck” actually means because when you have a clear avenue to penis jokes, you take it and push the accelerator to the floor.

As such, this video is a little more “Not Safe For Work” than usual. Make sure your boss isn’t peeking over your shoulder.

You can get to it directly at this link or view the video embedded below. If the video below doesn’t load, try the link instead. Enjoy! Next up we’ll be doing Christopher Nolan’s amazing-looking mindbender, Inception.